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There are few characteristics common to all blues, because the genre takes its shape from the idiosyncrasies of individual performances.[5] However, there are some characteristics that were present long before the creation of the modern blues.An early form of blues-like music was a call-and-response shouts, which were a “functional expression… style without accompaniment or harmony and unbounded by the formality of any particular musical structure.”A form of this pre-blues was heard in slave field shouts and hollers, expanded into “simple solo songs laden with emotional content”. The blues, as it is now known, can be seen as a musical style based on both European harmonic structure and the West African call-and-response tradition, transformed into an interplay of voice and guitar.

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